From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 29 6: 2:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4216937C1B3 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 06:02:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12aHih-000F7P-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:37:11 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12aHig-0008Dc-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:37:10 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:37:10 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: gerti-freebsds@bitart.com Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Random signal 9 (SIGKILL), please help! Message-ID: <20000329133710.E96553@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000329041104.3028.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> <20000328204948.K21029@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000329043747.3094.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> <20000328213754.L21029@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000329102024.3950.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000329102024.3950.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerd Knops wrote: > I think I found a correlation between pid roll over (from 99999 > to 0) and the spurious signals. Some program seems to keep > taps on pids that already went away, and when they 'come back' they > are killed again. I am suspicious of syslogd at the moment (I pipe > syslog output through a filter), one of the very few programs in the > base system that are running on those systems and that uses SIGKILL. > > However it will probably take some time before I can wrap my head > around that code, it's not exactly heavily commented... If anyone > with more intimate knowledge could have a look I'd appreciate that. Apparently syslogd could do this, I think a fix was commited recently, before RELENG_4 was branched, and it was fixed in RELENG_3 as well (possibly RELENG_2_2 even). -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message